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Vol. 41. No. 113. Lincoln, Nebraska Sunday, March 22, 1942 WSSF Starts Drive On Campus for $750 Sponsoreil jointly by the Ielirious Welfare Council of Lin coln and the campus YM and YW organizations, the drive for the World Student Service fund will begin Friday, March 27, and will continue lor two weeks. Jean Christie, student chairman of the drive, stated that the goal this year wis $7"0. and that all church groups in Lin coln are co-operating in the campaign for furuls. The "World Student Service fund is sponsored by the Inter national Student Service and by the National Intercollegiate Christian Council. It is undertaking to raise $100,000 for stu dent victims of war in Asia and Kuropc and for student refu gees in the United States. The i WSSF came into being in Sep tember, 1940, Willi a merger of the Far Eastern and European Student Service funds. Provides Relief Education. The work of the WSSF is dif ferent from all other relief agen cies as it provides relief plus edu cation, reconciliation and recon struction; and it is dependent solely upon the support of Amer (See, WSSF, page 31 YM-YW Group HoldsPoic-uoiv Dinner Today Beginning with a supper at 5 p. ni.. the flstes Pow-wow for both YW and YM members will be held today at Ellen Smith. Those attending the Estes confer ence last year or planning to at tend this year are especially in vited to the meeting, which will include members of the two or ganizations from all parts of the state. Moving pictures of last year's conference will be shown and Es tes songs will be sung as part of the program planned by Margaret Fowler. This year's Estes conference will be held at Estes Park as usual, starting June 18 and lasting ten days. The campus YM and YW plan to send even larger delega tions than usual to the conference this year, which will be based on the theme of these organizations' part in the present national emer gency. Admission to the meeting Monday will be 25 cents. CAA Revision Coordinates Air Programs CPT Training Facilities To Be Tart of Nation's Air Program in Future All pilot training facilities of the CAA .will be devoted to the nation's air program in the future, according to word received by Dean O. J. Ferguson of the engi neering college. Dean Ferguson stated that the CAA civilian pilot training has become a direct feeder for the armed air services. Priority will be given to future pilot trainees who met requirements of the services for appointment as avia tion cadets and who are members of the air corps section of the en listed reserve. About 175 men have completed the primary course and 75 of the secondary at UN since the pro gram was inaugurated here in October, 1939. At present there are 30 enrolled in the primary course and 20 in the advanced. New courses will be instituted to train some 31.000 aviation technicians for the air corps tech nical school. Applicants for this training must be members of the air corps section of the enlisted reserve . Including everything from corset manufac turers to fifth columnists in his original play, ''Football Crazy," Hob Aldrich was yesterday revealed as winner of the $40 prize given to the best script for the Klub spring show. After a week of deliberation and argu ment, Walt Rundin, president of the club, de clared that the spring show to be given April LV to 18 will be a ''fun show" with pony chorus, fast lines, good music and a lot of cam pus humor. Also announced was selection of Prof. L. A. Martin of the radio department to succeed Paul Dogen as director of the show since Bo gen is leaving for the army next week. Johnny Cox's orchestra has been signed to furnish the music, and a search for a dancing director is now in progress. Songs are needed and Rundin invited all students having written or interested in writ ing songs for the shows to meet Tuesday at -t p. m. in the Kosmet Klub office for informa tion. At 5 p. m. on the same day, all Kosmet Klub workers are to report for a meeting. First tryouts for the all male cast have been set for Saturday, March L'S, from 10 a. m. to 12 noon at the Temple theater. Thero are a lot of parts, according to Rundin, and all men interested are urged to attend on that morning. The winning play deals with a college that is going broke and that needs the money of a corset manufacturer, an alumnus of a rival school. In the process of getting the money, (See, KOSMET KLUB, page 4) Prof. Fellman Talks On Totalitarianism . . At Lecture Tomorrow Prof. David Fellman of the political science faculty will discuss ''Dictatorship and Totalitarianism in Europe" Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in the next, lecture of the university's series on "America and World War 11." The public is. invited to attend the lecture, which will be given in the Union ballroom. Dr, Fellman received his P. A. degree in 1020 and his M. A. degree in 1930 from the Univer sity of Nebraska. In 1934 he re ceived a Ph. D. degree from Yale university where he studied under a university scholarship, a Bloch fellowship and a Sterling fellow ship. Flicker Show To Frighten Timid Souls Only daring souls from UN will venture to sit in the Union ball room tonight from 8 to 10 p. m. when the Union sponsors another flicker show with the emphasis on horror. Lon Chancy, whose name is syn onymous with cold chills, kidnaps a famous opera star and takes her thru the catacombs in this guar anteed chiller, "The Phantom of the Opera." Planned sympathetically by the Union to lighten the heavy atmos phere as much as possible, the program will also include the fa vorite comedian of the movies, Charlie Chaplin, in one of his best known shorts, "Fireman." Tom Mix will also whoop it up in typi cal style for the length of another two reels, in "Western Stuff." Pt Big News Soon To Break in Japanese War Dig news will break soon in the Japanese war, and it will be the United States who will be making it, predicted James H. Young, noted foreign correspondent who addressed an over flow crowd at convocation Friday morning in the Union. The only thing which can enable Japan to win the war is low U. S. production, he de clared. "We can't win a war with strikes and walkouts when we're up against nations work ing 72 hours a week on war production." The Japanese people, including emperor, cabinet and privy council, had no knowledge of the attack on Pearl Harbor until after it had occurred, Young believes. The attack was directed solely by the military factions con trolling the government and without the ap proval of the royal family. There are five military factions in Japan, the speaker explained, and each has a differ ent idea as to how the war should be con ducted. One faction wants to attack Russia and this plan is being pushed by (iermany who as anxious to establish two fronts for the soviet army. "Atrocity stories being circulated about Japanese tactics are not exaggerated," de c'ared Young. "Wearc up against a tough, mean, and arrogant foe." apanese i "At this time last year, the United States was supplying Japan with five times more gasoline than the year before," Young charged. "This was because a handful of the best mis informed experts on the Far East in the state department thought they were dealing with a peace-loving people despite countless warnings by men who had studied Japanese war prepa rations at first-hand." These supplies of U. S. gasoline and oil were used by Japan in her attacks on Pearl Harbor, Manila, and in the Malay peninsula, said the correspondent who was director of the International News Service bureau in Tokyo for 13 years. He also criticized the Philippine high commissioner's refusal last summer to let money be spent for anti-aircraft guns on the islands despite the wishes of General MacAr thur. Japan Not Operating Alone. Claims that Japan is operating Independ ently in the war are not true, Young declared and she attacked the United Stales at the in stigation of Germany. The "elimination" of the Marshall and Caroline islands by the U. S. navy on Feb. 1 was of, much greater importance than most people attached to it, Young believes. Those Pacific islands were the most distant Japanese naval outposts, he explained, and were the bases for the attack on Hawaii. The speaker has been on the university faculty since 1934 and has taught one summer at the University of Missouri. He is the author of numerous articles espe cially in the field of public law. Engineers Set Annual Dinner Date: April 24 'Week' Cut to One-Day Event; Convocation May Be Added to Plans Inaugurating plans for the an nual Engineers' "Week," which will be only a one-day affair this year because of already crowded schedules in engineering college, the engineering executive board has set Friday, April 24, as the date of their annual banquet. In past years the custom has been to set aside a week for con vocations, a dance, various dem onstrations and displays and the banquet at which awards are pre sented to outstanding students in the engineering colleges. To date, the executive commit (See, ENGINEERS, page 3) Eight Men, Four Women's . Teams Enter I-M Debate . . . Begin in April Intramural debate will get un derway the first part of April with eight teams in the men's league and four in the women's, Bert Smith, varsity debate team member handling the I-M tourna ments announced yesterday. Held for the first time this year, the women's championship will be between Rosa Bouton h11, Oam ma Phi Beta, Alpha Phi and Car rie Bell Raymond hall. Entrants in the men's tourna ment, won last year by Zeta Beta Tau, will be the defending cham pions, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Psi, Sigma Alpha Mu, Sigma Chi, Delta Sigma Pi, and Alpha Tau Omega. Teams will debate the question Frank Mattoon Takes First Place in Meet WICHITA, Kas. Frank Mat toon, representing the University of Nebraska, was awarded unani mous first place and a prize of $25 in the Missouri Valley Foren sic leagues an-$ nual oratorical contest here on Thursday eve ning. Mattoon. a sonhomore ln'. the college of arts and sci- ences and mem- ? ber of the de- bate squad, won " VA with his speech' A entitled "Wake , V Up, America." - f Second place " .1$ in the contest mutmwA went to James Lincoln Journal Parks of the University of Okla homa. Other participants repre sented the University of Texas, University of Kansas, Kansas (See, MATTOON, page 3) of conscription of labor for the duration of the war. The degates will be held at the house of the affirmative team, and the public is invited to attend. Spirit Reigns Throughout Jr. Ak Show Competition, plenty of it, took place last night at the Junior Ak-Sar-Ben showmanship contest held in the horse barn on the ag campus. At the time of this writ ing, the winner of the show had not been picked. Frank Messersmith of Alliance was manager of the show, Joe Watson of West Point was the judge and Orris Corman served as master of ceremonies. A pig roping contest partici pated in by state 4-H leader, L. I. Frisbie, George Trimberger of the dairy department, Glen Kllngman and R. Prescott, was one of the entertaining numbers. Miles Cadwallader of Oxford also pro vided some lighter moments with his Adolph Schicklgruber costume and duties as cleanup man. There were five different class es of livestock shown. The win ners of each class were: Sheep, (See, AK SHOW, page 3) Seniors Order Caps, Gowns Caps and gowns for senior commencement should be or dered now from Long's or Co-op Book Store, Warren Hastings, senior council member in charge of caps nd gowns, an nounced yesterday. No i pay ment Is necessary to reserve them.